whickson Hacker News • Recommends
On “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone”
Someone actually took the effort to make a video to show how broken it is, it’s worth a watch: link to this video It’s only 2 min 24 sec.
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It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken
Michi NekoMichi
12K subscribers • 1 video on Hallway
- Recommended by 1 person: 1 on Hacker News.
- May be out of date. The tools, versions or practices it shows have likely moved on.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
1.5M views1 year ago1 recommendation
Mobile developmentiOS and SwiftUI
Michi NekoMichi demonstrates with slow-motion footage how the iOS keyboard registers taps incorrectly, causing frequent typos.
Ever noticed you're getting way more typos on iPhone lately? You're not going crazy - it's iOS. Follow-up video: youtu.be/uetbXcpUJVwWhy it's here
1 person recommends this, 1 disputes itWhat people say. Recommended as a clear demonstration that recent iPhone typing issues are caused by iOS software bugs rather than user error.
ProfessorLaytonon Hacker News • Disputes
On “Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'”
It’s not a silly comment, both macOS and iOS have been decaying into dog shit over the years from obvious bugs that anyone who uses the apps and features being sold would run into very quickly. Tim and other executives might be using their devices as email machines, but it’s not obvious they’re using everything they’re quite literally selling us. A few random examples: 1: The iOS keyboard is literally broken link to this video 2: The Music app is barely functional, and will regularly fail to play music. Here it is bugging out, and stacking multiple album covers link 3: Offloading an app does not actually save any space link There’s so many more, and none of these examples are edge cases.
MyFirstSasson Hacker News • Mentions
On “Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year”
The number one priority must surely be fixing the keyboard, besides the horrible UX? Millions are having problems for years so it's not just me, honestly thought i was "getting old" but no incredible amount of threads and now this on YT with 1 mil views: link to this video Wild typing on a 3210 was less stressful for me.
ramityon Hacker News • Mentions
On “iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]”
35m ago edit: Apple uses many predictive systems for typing. My sentiment in pointing out just slide to type might be misguided as it does not exist in a vacuum. I'd love to see these tests redone with slide to type disabled. I'm leaving the original comment below for reference. Slide to type. This "issue" is at most 6 years old for iOS users. Turn off slide to type if you do not use it. Slide to type does key resizing logic. This is the direct cause of this issue. Please upvote this comment for visibility. Please reply if you think I'm wrong. I see this get posted frequently enough I'm actually losing it. Please refer to link to this video (timestamp 1:12) to see that slide to type is enabled.
AnotherGoodNameon Hacker News • Mentions
On “BillG the Manager”
Fwiw it becomes really really obvious when companies have someone at the top pushing for initiatives like this and when they don't. A great example is how Apple used to be great at this. These days.the.keyboard.is.practically.unusable. As in it still doesn't type out the letter you tapped and you can see this via slow motion video recording link to this video It's not at all wrong to call out subordinates in the company for quality feel. It may seem like it leads to misprioritization (everyone in the company scrambles to fix the issue you saw) but not doing this at all is far far worse. Look at this issue BillG raised and the fact that no one cared until it was raised. Big companies are very siloed by…
jmakeron Hacker News • Mentions
On “Bugs Apple Loves”
I submitted this YouTube video (not mine) a while ago here that demonstrates typing issues that I also encountered on several iPhones: It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken( link to this video )
hn111on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Bugs Apple Loves”
Just typing on iOS randomly inserts the wrong characters: link to this video I thought it was just me until someone mentioned this on HN
satvikpendemon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone”
Wow that video 0 is incredible, in a bad way. How can the OS correctly register the letter tapped but then input a different letter? That is like the most fundamental feature of a keyboard. It's not even autocomplete because the letters "Thj" as shown in the video don't even match any words that start with T. Glad I'm sticking to Android then, whose typing, you know, actually works, not even to mention how good (at least SwiftKey's) autocomplete and swipe typing is. 0 link to this video
chmod775on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone”
The YT video they linked is excessively clear about what the issue is. There's no point in explaining it again. link to this video
biotechbioon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I'm leaving iPhone”
+1. From the original post, I found this video to be particularly damning: link to this video Does anyone have an explanation for how something like this passes QC at a company with the resources of Apple? Is this video misrepresenting something?
deminatureon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?”
All of Apple's software is rotting, from OSX to iOS to the developer tools. Massive bugs like the keyboard no longer working properly 1 are left unresolved for years. Whichever executive or engineering leader used to keep the quality bar high must have left or stopped paying attention. There also seems to be little culture of quality and ownership at the IC level. 1 link to this video